Labour market
Remote working: a revolution in need of rules
Tuesday 15 December 2020 |
Vincent Grimault | Alternatives Economiques
Telework has mainly been a revolution by accident, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people have now discovered its upside and potential, but also its risks and limits. However, bad working conditions linked to nomadic or at-home work are not inevitable.
Public employees: comparisons between European countries are deceptive
Tuesday 27 March 2018 |
Vincent Grimault | Alternatives Economiques
“Hypertrophic”, “poorly run”, “bloated”, “too costly”... in all countries, cliches concerning the public service are legion. New indicators allow us to see how the reality is more nuanced.
There’s an urgent need for foreign labour in Croatia
Friday 18 January 2019 |
Francesca Rolandi | OBC Transeuropa
Fewer births, greater life expectancy, emigration. These are some of the ingredients adding up to local labour shortages - now a major problem in many Eastern European countries.
Go East: home is where joy is
in depth
Wednesday 25 October 2017 |
Lidija Pisker | OBC Transeuropa
More and more professionals from the Western Balkans choose to seek a better life by going east – opting for countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland
The mirage of cheaper labor
in depth
Wednesday 13 November 2019 |
Marc Chevallier | Alternatives Economiques
In their quest for competitiveness many countries are fixated on cutting the cost of labor, in particular by reducing social-insurance contributions. But it that the right solution?
The minimum wage, a bulwark against poverty
Wednesday 20 March 2019 |
Guillaume Duval | Alternatives Economiques
France has more minimum-wage employees than other European countries. But that is not to say that they are poor.
Inequality in France and in Europe
Wednesday 18 December 2019 |
Alternatives Economiques The Inequality Observatory is an independent French institute that compiles a large number of statistics on inequalities.
Eastern Europe is fast filling huge gap in minimum wages
in depth
Tuesday 06 March 2018 |
Sergio Cebrián | VoxEurop
The debate on the need to establish a minimum salary at an EU level is facing up to the differences member states have on the issue
Robots will never completely replace people
Wednesday 04 December 2019 |
Barbara Erling Katarzyna Korzeniowska
| BiQdata
By 2030, as many as 20 million manufacturing jobs will be lost to robots, according to a report published by Oxford Economics, a global forecasting company. Some people have already started to fight back – in the footsteps of the 19th-century Luddites – deliberately sabotaging the robots they work with on a daily basis. They are afraid that these robots will take over their jobs.
What about the security of security guards?
Monday 16 December 2019 |
Ana Kuzmanić Ivana Perić
| H-Alter
Security guards in Croatia suffer from harsh working conditions: extremely long work shifts, poor equipment, minimum salary. They are overburned and cannot have a proper private life, but they have little alternatives. Yet security business is flourishing in Europe, and companies make millions of revenues.
